I think this has potential. I played with keyboard because I don't have a gamepad for my PC.
A few points:
- I actually kind of liked the music.... at first, for the first couple of loops. But its loops soo often and there is only the one song it starts to get on your nerves fast.
- Maybe I was just just playing the ez mode level but with all the items around I never felt at risk. There weren't really any stakes.
- I can definitely see why you suggest a controller. with a Keyboard and mouse it is very un-intuitive, but I can imagine it would work much better with a controller.
Despite these issue I actually did have fun with it and think the basic gameplay idea is solid. If you clean up these things and keep working on it (and I get a controller), then this could be a very fun game.